
AMD's $629 card just quietly beat Nvidia's $900 one on paper — and on VRAM
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Nadia Rahman · 7h ago · 6 min
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The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Nadia Rahman · 7h ago · 6 min

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely.
Ravi Malhotra · 7h ago · 7 min

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $805 now. The RX 9060 XT 16GB is still under $430. Here's whether Nvidia's edge is still worth the gap.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 6 min

the 16GB version is up 88% since launch. the 8GB version barely moved. here's the real math if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming.
Ravi Malhotra · 4d ago · 7 min

Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Ravi Malhotra · 5d ago · 6 min

Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Nadia Rahman · 6d ago · 8 min

The RTX 5060 Ti got hit hardest, the RTX 5080 barely moved, and that flipped the value math. Here's what actually makes sense, card by card, in August 2026.
Lena Fischer · 6d ago · 9 min

The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 8 min

Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled. Both are true at once.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 7 min

MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 6 min

For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 11 · 6 min

While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 10 · 7 min

QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min

AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 6 · 6 min

AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 5 · 7 min

GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min

South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min

A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 7 min

MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min

the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 2 · 6 min

The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 6 min

A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 7 min

Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min